Some 50-75 people were evacuated from their homes late Wednesday afternoon after police received a report that “potentially dangerous devices” that looked like large caliber bullets and artillery shells were found in a recently-vacated apartment. Police set up a perimeter around the neighborhood, evacuated several dozen residents, rerouted school and municipal buses, and kept the area locked down for several hours. The munitions were eventually determined to be de-militarized, were removed by specialists, and residents were allowed to return to their homes after a few hours. The photo above came from the link above, which has more . . .
photos and a video, and another video with even more photos can be found here, though that one is in French. The son of a former tenant has come forward to say that the found items were his. Naturally, police “and the Army continue to investigate the legality of having these weapons in a home.”
Your Lockdown of the Day™ comes from East Hartford, Connecticut, where the Woodland School was locked down for an hour after officials discovered a student was carrying bullets. Police “searched the school” after receiving the report and seeing that the student had several bullets for a handgun, but no gun was found. No information is available on whether the student was disciplined or arrested. Of course, parents were notified of the lockdown, and that all students were at all times safe and were never in danger.
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin on Tuesday signed into law Senate Bill 317, which allows people with concealed carry permits to bring guns into city-owned recreational facilities. The law requires those with a concealed carry permit to secure the weapons out of view and inaccessible to others. The article at wowktv.com points out that there have been several crimes committed with guns in [Charleston’s] recreational centers in the last ten years, specifically three at the Charleston Civic Center and eight at the King Center. I’m curious how many of those “crimes committed” were simply possession charges, because those would be meaningless in evaluating the efficacy of the new law.
An NRA-backed bill designed to help keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill passed out of the Oklahoma House Public Safety Committee Wednesday, for consideration by the full House. The bill would require county court clerks to forward adjudications involving mental health to federal authorities, presumably so they could be flagged and show up during a background check. The bill passed 12-0, with three abstentions.
A Canadian couple was arrested on firearms trafficking charges while crossing the Rainbow Bridge into Canada on March 16th by members of the Canadian Border Services Agency, who were acting on information provided by the Toronto Police Service’s Firearms Enforcement Unit. The couple was crossing the bridge with their two children. A search of their van turned up “seven handguns, two hand grenades, ammunition, over-capacity magazines and knives.” Upon the discovery of the grenades, “several lanes” of the Rainbow Bridge were closed while the munitions were secured. Search warrants were executed against the couples’ home, which resulted in the discovery of an additional 34 firearms, including 20 handguns, along with “hundreds of rounds of ammunition” (Oh noes!). Later investigation turned up five more firearms, allegedly smuggled into Canada. The couple was due in court on Tuesday, facing 73 separate firearms and firearms trafficking charges.
A few months back MattV2099 debunked the myth that putting your thumb behind the slide on a semi-auto when it fires will get it broken, finding that the worst you really needed to worry about was possibly cutting yourself on the sharp edges of the bottom of the slide. For that video, he used a GLOCK-brand GLOCK 17 in 9mm. Since the internet is never satisfied, a bunch of folks challenged him to “try that with a 10mm!” Never let it be said that MattV2099 doesn’t listen to his viewers. Here it is again with a GLOCK-brand GLOCK 20 in 10mm. Note that he does start this one off using the heel of his hand, before he goes to two thumbs, and then down to one. He’s crazy, but he ain’t stupid. (Some NSFW language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnfkCFnaUZg
One of the first things that hickok45 says in this video about the Springfield Armory 1911 HRT Professional Model is “Even if you don’t care for 1911s, that’s a pretty one, isn’t it?” As someone who doesn’t care much either way for 1911s, I can’t help but agree.
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This from the land of Rahmrod. I’m happy to hear that the resident and his daughter are unharmed. I’m sorry to hear the SOB who tried to break in survived. I wonder how Rahm would feel about other law abiding citizens doing the same as this off duty officer. I wonder how the antis feel about an honest to ___________(deity of choice) DGUOTD in Chicago.
Hell yes!!! If you are responsible you should be able to own it. Thats called true freedom jack!
All I ever find when a tenant moves out is a pile of garbage and leftover junk furnishings. I never get left cool stuff like that
Yes.
I wouldn’t mind owning one in reality. I really want a solothurn or something similar. 20mm is just fun to shoot.
Kinda spendy but so what.
If only a CZ 455 could take a Ruger-style rotary mag… that’d be the perfect low-cost .22 bolt action IMO. I handled an American Rimfire and while the ergos and sights are decent and the trigger is great, I don’t care for that synthetic stock. Too slippery. Looks and feels cheap. And the action is also inferior to a CZ or Savage, it seems to work fine but not as fluid or smooth. You could do far worse for the price though.
Sure, why not? As long as the owner is a grown-up, acts like it, and can afford it, why should I care? It would make a pretty awesome and very practical stump remover.
I’m really looking forward to buying my 3 month-old son his first .22LR rifle, and I’ve been excited about the American Rifle. It would be a great start for him before he moves on to the Marlin 60 and beyond.
I do wish that Ruger would team up with Tech-Sights and include one of their sights as a standard option, but perhaps Ruger just feels that not enough buyers care for iron sights.
Jeremy Clarkson is right.
Rob G. , I’m sorry to hear about the horrible restrictions. I used to live in Western New York (Buffalo -Niagara Falls area) and all my brothers and sisters are still there. They have to suffer under that dolt Cuomo’s “safe act” which also restricts the size magazine to 10 rounds I believe. I hope your next four years are profitable, comfortable and pleasantly memorable until you make your way south here to the sunshine state. Good luck man. Stay aware and keep the faith. – John
Early Dr Who cyber man prop/costume
I am just glad I live in Arizona, this is not even a chargeable offense; if you try and break into my house or take my car while I am in it I can shoot you dead legally, we can carry open or concealed without a permit; criminal beware! We bite back!!!! Castle doctrine rocks, the rest of you are simply pikers! Cheap imitations!!!! If you choose to live in the Midwest or the left coast, you get everything you deserve.
2nd amendment doesn’t say anything about ordinance or artillery. It does say arms, which are a type of ordinance. But a cannon is the artillery type of ordinance. I would like them to be available to militia units as the dick act describes, paid for and provided by the state in which the militia operates. As far a title 2 weapons, it is completely unconstitutional that the people don’t have non taxed/licensed (besides normal sales tax) access to them. You should be able to buy short barrel rifles/shotguns, suppressors and machine-guns the same way you buy any other firearm, with a simple instant background check and take possession of it instantly. My point is the line is drawn when it is no longer a personal weapon, when it is a destructive device and artillery. Heavy machine guns, grenades, cannons and bombs, leave that to the militia and the military. If the police department can have it, so should you. If the military has it, you local militia should as well.
When Dark Country (DC) even THINKS about a law, its about beating-up whitey.
The inferior monkey people have taken-over and Whitey just stands and watches his world come to an end.
This FINE WHITE gentleman’s life has been destroyed over something that a Dark One would never have even seen a misdemeanor citation for. Its disgraceful and Whitey not only allowed it to happen, but we encourage our own demise.
Wake up White Man, White Women and smell the reality! We are being aggressively targeted for extinction. You going to just let these cases happen so long as its not YOU?
In DC, the selective enforcement is ALL about race and classification.
$45 pmag still.
All these lockdowns are laughable, if it weren’t so sad that this is what they’ve come up with to safeguard children. Growing up we played cops n robbers, cowboys and injuns, I had a small pocket knife (didn’t all Boy Scouts?), and I had a .45colt case jammed on the back end of my pen. Imagine what my “permanent record” would look like now.
Yes, I should be able to buy that gun and yes I should be able to win the lottery which would then allow me to purchase said gun.
If I had a huge piece of property that would allow me to take full advantage of the AA gun, sure, why not? What a hoot it would be to open up that baby from time to time, as finances would allow. Not sure how easily I could order the ammo for it online. Gunbot.net doesn’t have a category for 23mm AA ammo, but … perhaps Walmart will get some in stock.
The central issue of personal freedom is underscored by this post. I have demilled ammo as part of WWII trench art and I suppose some people would consider that dangerous. So, as a result of **THEIR** ignorance, we would be subjected to police search and seizure in various parts of the world, and in our own country.
Sigh.
Note to H.R.
It is pretty obvious by now on TTAG that there are a, thankfully small, cadre of regulars who are simply keyboard commandos who will jump into any comment stream and carpet bomb it ad naseum. Their hobby is perpetuating these kinds of comment squabbles on this forum.
I’ve been guilty of that myself too often, but now it is readily apparent who the chief offenders are here who are doing this.
They think they are “doing something” for their rights by comment flooding on any topic they happen to latch on to. Funny how they are just preaching to the choir and basically yelling into a large empty room for the apparent thrill of hearing their own echo.
It makes for some cheap entertainment and yes, I must admit, it is fun to throw some bait out there and see what bites, when you don’t have anything better to do.
My advice, check the comment count on any post. Once it goes much past 100 it’s pretty much toast and not much point even bothering with it.
FWIW. YMMV.
By the way, in a true DGU, it is not that the cop should be treated like us, but that we should be treated like a cop.
For him to be charged, would be an injustice, that is not our goal.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
* but three lefts do.
@lolinski
You win the internet today.
@FPSrussia
Stop. Just stop.
I enjoy FPS too… But yeah, have to say his whole fake-Russian-schtick thing doesn’t really lend itself well to serious ballistics testing. Kinda like trying to take someone seriously in a gorilla suit or something. Just be the gorilla bro.
Junk science or not the natives get mighty restless in Chicago when it gets HOT. It’s violent in Russia because it’s RUSSIA. I wish I could make $ predicting 90years in the future.
That’s why I bought a top of the line AK-74 for my SHTF rifle.
get a glock and get it over with